On-Demand Episodes

Gaius Publius Interviews Alan Grayson: How To Be Effective In a Republican Congress Alan Grayson is a three-term Democratic congressman from Florida, having just been re-elected in 2012. Grayson is easily the most effective Democrat in Congress, progressive or otherwise, having passed 33 pieces of legislation in the previous House session alone. In this pre-recorded conversation with Gaius Publius, he reveals how he "cracked the nut" that allows him to get progressive legislation passed. Part of his secret — his goal is to be a person who "gets things done for the progressive movement," not a person who introduces bills and "then does nothing" with them. In the last two weeks of the last Congress alone, for example, he passed 15 progressive amendments. Grayson discusses what he learned in his one term away from Congress (he lost re-election in 2010); how he deals with Democratic leaders when those leaders want the wrong thing; what he thinks of the current global climate situation; and touches on issues like TPP and prosecution of elected and appointed officials for torture. Grayson on Twitter: @AlanGrayson. Gaius on Twitter: @Gaius_Publius. Keep up with Grayson's writing at AlanGraysonEmails.tumblr.com.

Understanding US public policy, both domestic and foreign, is impossible without considering the role of intelligence operations, government, contracted to government and private. The roles of domestic surveillance, foreign infilitration,... more

Political satirist Culture of Truth bases The Bobblespeak Translations on Meet the Press and/or This Week with George Stephanopoulos. Using show transcripts, he creates the 'most ridiculous moment' for Virtually Speaking Sundays where two... more

Political satirist Culture of Truth bases The Bobblespeak Translations on Meet the Press and/or This Week with George Stephanopoulos. Using show transcripts, he creates the 'most ridiculous moment' for Virtually Speaking Sundays where two... more

Kelly Hills talks with Madhusudan Katti about reconciliation ecology: managing urban ecosystems for biodiversity; which includes managing the impact of droughts. Read Dr. Katti on water management in cities in the American West,... more

Cybersecurity, cyberterrorism and end-to-end encryption. Perceptions of the players in the Greece eurocrisis. Reddit and sexism and "free speech" vs. investor return. Commentary from Spocko and Jay Ackroyd. From Spocko, more on the... more

Charles Schumer-Rob Portman proposed "repatriation tax holiday" on what corporations owe on "offshore" profits held in tax havens AND a huge tax break to encourage offshoring production and profits in the future. Then, from the morning... more

Professor Cat Warren joins us to discuss her book, What the Dog Knows. She and her German shepherd have spent the last seven years searching for the dead. Solo is a cadaver dog. What started as a way to harness Solo's unruly... more